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The Julia community is small and has no large commercial backers. Projects such as TF/PyTorch require community support and a lot of investment which Julia just
by staunton 4y ago
The Julia community is small and has no large commercial backers. Projects such as TF/PyTorch require community support and a lot of investment which Julia just doesn't have. In fact, Julia isn't even trying at the moment to "compete" with TF/PyTorch [1, 2].
[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-machine-learning-in-julia/74385 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-machine-learning-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507
- cbkeller 4y agoI think this is the best answer, as someone who's been using the language for most of my work for a few years (but not in ML). Flux.jl is probably the highest-profile relevant effort, but it's been (AFAIU) pretty much entirely volunteer-developed for the past 2+ years.